| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.12.2021 |
AirForestry launched! | Picture from iSkogen article
Launching our newest startup after over a year in stealth mode! AirFor... |
| 23.11.2021 |
Novum Organum podcast: Green Deep Tech Transfer - is a com... | See more here: https://novumorganum.podbean.com/e/green-deep-tech-transfer-is-a-combination-of-love-... |
| 15.06.2021 |
Graphmatech raises 84MSEK round | There’s 80kg copper in an electric car and 2030 we expect a global copper shortages of 10 million to... |
| 04.05.2021 |
Så tänker Jane om att investera hållbart | Full interview in Swedish here: https://t.teknikforetagen.se/samhallsutveckling/sa-tanker-finansakto... |
| 19.03.2021 |
Jane is a "founder-turned-investor to watch, accordin... | Full article here: https://sifted.eu/articles/founders-turned-investors/ (pay wall)
Website by ... |
| 19.11.2020 |
Volumental is expanding! | Volumental is growing fast and has now helped 7.5 million people find perfect fitting footwear! In o... |
| 15.11.2020 |
Events Autumn-Winter 2020-2021 | You can find us and our startups on stage at several upcoming events. Here are some of them:
On May... |
| 02.11.2020 |
Caroline among top 40 under 40 entrepreneurs in DI Digital |
https://digital.di.se/artikel/fem-tech-miljardarer-pa-arets-40-under-40-lista
Website by Ca... |
| 13.08.2020 |
Caroline now mentor in CDL's Climate Stream | The CDL Climate Stream at CDL-Paris and CDL-West will provide high impact contributions to climate c... |
| 13.08.2020 |
Ending Extinction | We’ve joined as contributors “Con X Tributors” to the Conservation X labs 2020 Tech Prize to end ext... |
| 16.07.2020 |
Caroline a finalist in EU Innovator Prize | “Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, said:
“Today,... |
| 30.06.2020 |
STARTUP CLIMATE ACTION | Join us, Sting and Norrsken in Startup Climate Action. Inspired by the SDG 13 Climate Action, 13 lea... |
| 03.06.2020 |
COVID RECOVERY PROGRAM - APPLY NOW! | Let's avoid a depression, shall we?
If your startup can help accelerate the recovery from COVID-19,... |
| 12.05.2020 |
Volumental on fit, ecom, and our Nature paper | https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/comfortable-shoes-e-commerce-ales-jurca/
To contact us, email firstn... |
| 19.03.2020 |
Swedish Algae Factory raises €5M | We are very proud to have been part of building this company and securing this investment round. Sin... |
| 09.03.2020 |
Breakit: Jane came out of the last market crash as a winne... | Full article here
To contact us, email firstname or press @walerud.com
Website by Caroline Walerud... |
| 06.03.2020 |
Jane in book about the Internet Pioneers: interview in För... | Read the whole article here
Jane Walerud startade vid årsskiftet 1998–1999 företaget Bluetail tills... |
| 20.02.2020 |
"29 deeptech VCs in Europe you need to know" | A good description: “Very specialist, lots of handholding”
Read the whole list here: https://sifted... |
| 02.01.2020 |
Jane in interview in Svenska Dagbladet | The article is titled "The Star Investor: Now I prioritize the Climate”. Read the article in Sw... |
| 18.12.2019 |
Ekkono launches projects with Volvo, ABB, Alfa Laval and H... | Smart Equals Money: Edge machine learning enables self-configuration and automation. Read more at ek... |
| 01.12.2019 |
Volumental's strong growth - interview in DI Digital | Read the full article on DI Digital
Read the whole article here (in Swedish)
Website by Caroline... |
| 28.11.2019 |
Jane + Ekkono + Alfa Laval at Ignite Sweden Day | A big challenge in the innovation ecosystem is to find the right kind of interaction between corpora... |
| 28.11.2019 |
Swedish Algae Factory launches with True Organic of Sweden | Today we launch Make my day “with revolutionary ingredient Algica”. Our CEO and Founder Sofie will s... |
| 24.11.2019 |
Graphmatech inaugurates factory | See more here
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, Olle Svensson, Andrea... |
| 15.11.2019 |
Jane is mentor at Oxford University's Creative Destruction... | Read more on their website
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, Olle Sve... |
| 14.11.2019 |
Graphmatech launches with add:north | LAUNCHED! After more than 12 months of development, Graphmatech and add:north present the Koltron G1... |
| 29.10.2019 |
Interview with Ekkono.ai's CEO Jon | Read it here (in Swedish)
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, Olle Sven... |
| 10.10.2019 |
SAF are Europe’s Green Heroes 2019 – €500k prize! | We are so happy and honored to win the Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge. This win helps us reach m... |
| 10.09.2019 |
Racefox launches new Racefox Run.
Faster. Longer. Forever... |
With Racefox, you get a personalized coach who understands your strengths and weaknesses, keeping ... |
| 05.09.2019 |
Caroline in interview about entrepreneurship and positive ... | https://vartarvipavag.org/16-caroline-walerud-entreprenor-investerare/
Facebook: https://www.facebo... |
| 24.04.2019 |
Q1 going strong at Swedish Algae Factory! | See: http://swedishalgaefactory.com/news/q1-update/
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: M... |
| 24.04.2019 |
Volumental announces partnerships with Superfeet and Wiiv | Volumental’s omnichannel recommendation platform continues to expand!
We’re thrilled to announce th... |
| 02.02.2019 |
Swedish Algae Factory summarizes an excellent 2018! | See blog post on our website here
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, O... |
| 06.12.2018 |
Racefox recives EU grant | This Tuesday we got the happy news that our portfolio company Racefox have been approved for grant f... |
| 11.09.2018 |
New investment: Walerud Ventures invest in Graphmatech AB ... | We are happy to announce a new investment!
Walerud Ventures has together with ABB Technology Ventur... |
| 20.02.2018 |
The Swedish National Innovation Council celebrates three y... | The Swedish National Innovation Council, celebrates three years this February, and Jane is a member.... |
| 23.11.2017 |
Caroline in EU talks | Last weekend, Sweden and Gothenburg hosted an EU meeting, with the official title “Social summit for... |
| 13.10.2017 |
New investment in Ekkono |
The news is out! We´re investing in Ekkono togheter with Almi Invest!
Ekkono sells tools to make ... |
| 01.06.2017 |
Caroline on the jury for Rivstart | Today the Swedish bank Swedbank announced their new competition called “Rivstart”- a contest concern... |
| 30.05.2017 |
New interview with Jane | Today the Swedish magazine Entrepenör published an interview with Jane about the Stockholm tech scen... |
| 07.03.2017 |
Racefox is finalist for Innovation of the Year 2017 |
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, Olle Svensson, Andreas von Gegerfelt... |
| 07.03.2017 |
Jane and Caroline on list of Sweden's most powerful busine... | Veckans Affärer, Sweden's business weekly, lists Jane and Caroline among Sweden's 125 most powerful ... |
| 22.02.2017 |
Volumental wins #1 Ski Product of the Year, RaceFox wins X... | Press release Volumental
Press release Racefox
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikae... |
| 13.01.2017 |
Volumental launches with New Balance, live in 30 countries... | Article in Footwear News here.
Image credit Aurora Hortwood
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo c... |
| 08.12.2016 |
Make it or break it! Pricing and the Business Model | Start-ups often wrestle with critical decisions on their pricing and business model; since I’ve cons... |
| 05.12.2016 |
Jane one of Sweden's biggest startup investors (in Swedish... | Photo by DI Digital
Jane on the list of Sweden's 52 most powerful tech investors
Interview with Ja... |
| 30.11.2016 |
Jane giving the SUP46 Hall of Fame prize to Sebastian Knut... |
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, Olle Svensson, Andreas von Gegerfelt... |
| 15.11.2016 |
Startup Killer: Customer Acquisition Cost | Two of our current companies are thinking about maybe needing follow on investments during next year... |
| 27.10.2016 |
Why do our startups do well? | Not all of our startups are successful. By no means.
After we'd been investing in and starting high... |
| 27.10.2016 |
When to sell the company or at least some shares: | Your first alternative as a purchaser is probably someone you're already working with; you know and ... |
| 27.10.2016 |
To Patent or not to Patent | If your invention is at least reasonably valuable and has some newness to it, you ought to think abo... |
| 19.10.2016 |
Startup Exits | We often get worried questions from entrepreneurs about exits.
This description is meant to give a ... |
| 04.10.2016 |
Investment philosophy: Time Money Exit | We join your team, build the company with you and don't take over. We spend about a day a week with ... |
| 04.10.2016 |
Starting a Unicorn: the Klarna story | The Klarna founders: Niklas, Seb and Victor. Photo courtesy of Klarna
Niklas: “We knew nothing abou... |
| 04.10.2016 |
Bluetail: Spinning out of Ericsson and selling for $150M i... | Jane is one of the unsung heroines of the Erlang story. She was the first entrepreneur to recognise ... |
| 09.09.2016 |
Lensway: What an amazing ride! | Photo of Daniel, courtesy of Footway
"When I came to Lensway in 2002, they were 4 people with ... |
| 09.09.2016 |
Satcube on IBC 9th – 13th of September 2016. |
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, Olle Svensson, Andreas von Gegerfelt... |
| 02.09.2016 |
Heavy tech profiles join STING's Advisory board |
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, Olle Svensson, Andreas von Gegerfelt... |
| 25.08.2016 |
W&P just invested in a digital coach for cross-country... | "WeMeMove's real-time coach works and is very easy to use. I hope to be able to contribute to t... |
| 23.08.2016 |
STING, Swedbank and Jane Walerud find FinTech stars in STI... | Swedbank kastar sig in i jakten på nästa generations fintech-stjärnor. Tillsammans med affärsängeln ... |
| 01.08.2016 |
Ellen: from board member to CEO and listing a company | Jane was CEO of Ellen October 2005 – December 2007. During this time, she listed the company on Firs... |
| 22.07.2016 |
Volumental: S Korea retail giant Lotte implements 2-second... | Lotte Department Store, a major Korean retailer, will today implement a new 3D foot scanner at its f... |
| 14.07.2016 |
Jane and Caroline on list of Nordics' most inspiring tech ... |
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, Olle Svensson, Andreas von Gegerfelt... |
| 08.07.2016 |
"With money comes responsibility" | “Med möjligheterna som pengar ger kommer det ett ansvar. Det är väldigt viktigt att man som entrepre... |
| 02.05.2016 |
WeMeMove one of Sweden's hottest tech companies |
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, Olle Svensson, Andreas von Gegerfelt... |
| 22.04.2016 |
Walerud & Partners invest in Satcube AB in a 10MSEK to... | Satcube has also secured a loan of 10MSEK.
Article in Swedish
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo... |
| 01.04.2016 |
Jane Walerud sells Teclo Networks – frees up capital for i... | 15 years ago, Jane Walerud and her co-founder sold their tech company Blue Tail for $185 million (1.... |
| 08.03.2016 |
Caroline ranks global #4 among women making a difference i... | 3Ders.org: 25-year-old Caroline Walerud was recently added to Forbes’ renowned 30 under 30 for her i... |
| 18.01.2016 |
Caroline on Forbes 30 under 30 | Featured in Leaderboard and in Retail section in Forbes 30u30 Europe 2016.
Website by Caroline Wa... |
| 08.01.2016 |
Swedish tech stars attack options legislation (in Swedish) | Caroline Walerud and Martin Lorentzon, founder of Spotify, are among those critical to the new sugge... |
| 02.12.2015 |
Prince Daniel, Martin Lorentzon and Caroline visit Kalmar ... | Article in Barometern (in Swedish)
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, ... |
| 27.11.2015 |
Jane Walerud inducted into SUP46's Swedish Startup Hall of... | A US-born entrepreneur who has helped pave the way for women in tech has joined the ranks of some of... |
| 17.05.2015 |
The Guardian: The perfectly fitting shoe is just a click a... | A Swedish firm believes that it can take away the frustration of bringing home shoes that don’t fit ... |
| 08.05.2015 |
The reasons why Sweden is a hotbed for digital innovation | Why are tech startups so numerous and successful?
Kista Science Park in Stockholm is one of many hu... |
| 27.04.2015 |
Caroline speaks at Startup Day | “SUCCESS IS NOT A STRAIGHT LINE”
Caroline Walerud from Volumental reminds us that the road to succes... |
| 14.04.2015 |
Caroline "let us build companies and cut the time was... | Opinion piece in Ny Teknik
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, Olle Sve... |
| 01.04.2015 |
Volumental: 3D bespoke tailoring moves from the lab to the... | Caroline Walerud, cofounder and CEO of Stockholm-based Volumental, wants to take 3D body-scans from ... |
| 10.11.2014 |
Jane writes on automation (in Swedish) | Här finns jobben - efter att robotarna tagit över
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mik... |
| 05.09.2014 |
New York Times: "An online 3D scanning service that e... | Sweden vies as high tech hub
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, Olle S... |
| 01.09.2014 |
Volumental announces $3M investment | About FOUNDER.org:
FOUNDER.org is an investor and company building program for student entrepreneur... |
| 26.05.2014 |
Caroline talks mass customization at Geek Girl Meetup | Article in Swedish
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, Olle Svensson, A... |
| 15.05.2014 |
Stockholm start-up smackdown: investors feel the sting | Three Stockholm entrepreneurs gave four well-heeled investors a taste of their own medicine last wee... |
| 06.03.2014 |
Jane: Please steal these 6 startup ideas (in Swedish) | En av Sveriges mest framgångsrika affärsänglar och entrepenörer bjuder exklusivt VA:s läsare på 6 br... |
| 04.12.2013 |
Caroline #1 Super Talent of the Year 2013 | When she was 23, Caroline topped 2013’s super talent list, the Swedish business magazine Veckans Aff... |
| 24.10.2013 |
Volumental wins Hottest Web Entrepreneurs of the Year Awar... | Article in Swedish
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, Olle Svensson, A... |
| 08.05.2013 |
Volumental wins prizes at STING Day | Article in Swedish
Website by Caroline Walerud. Photo credits: Mikael Andersson, Olle Svensson, A... |
