GU Ventures
guventures.com Direct + LP
GU Ventures is a university-linked venture capital firm based in Gothenburg, Sweden. It invests in and supports research-based companies with global potential, offering direct investment and fund investment opportunities.
GU Ventures is a corporate venture arm headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, founded in 1995. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from seed to growth, in life science, tech, cleantech and deeptech.
“We build, drive and invest in innovative and cutting-edge research based companies with global potential that are striving to make the world better”
— GU Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Headquarters
- Gothenburg, Sweden
- Invests in
- Sweden, global
- Sectors
- life science, tech, cleantech, deeptech
- Founded
- 1995
Team, as GU Ventures publishes it
- Klementina Österberg CEO
- Richard Raimer CFO
- Carl-Peter Mattsson Investment Director
- Jesper Dahlberg Business Development Corporate Law
- Andreas Pfister Business Development
- Catharina Axelzon Popovic Business Operations Manager
- Daniel Poté Business Development
- Eduarde Rohner NMS Lead, Business Development
- Elisabeth Gustafsson Business Development
- Fredrik Wångsell Business Development
- Helena Lundquist Business Development
- Lorna Fletcher Business Development Intellectual Property
Names and roles exactly as listed on guventures.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 2 co-investors found.
- Adelis Equity 1 shared company: mynewsdesk.com
- Chalmers Ventures 1 shared company: mynewsdesk.com
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page GU Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.guventures.com/name, is_investor, type, invests_in_geographies, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://www.guventures.com/investment-opportunitieslayer, stage_min, stage_max, founded
- https://www.guventures.com/portfoliohq_country, hq_city, sectors
- https://www.guventures.com/teampeople
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