Skåne's LARGEST startup event!

Startup Live! is the night we gather the whole startup family to tell stories, celebrate with each other and find new ways to work together. 

Whether you're a new or experienced entrepreneur, investor, community builder, creative, techie, student or employee from a startup or a large company, or you are just interested to learn, come along and be inspired.

If you're interested in entrepreneurship or startups and want to know more about the innovative things that are happening in the region, this event is for you!

All you need to know

Join us @ STUDIO Malmö for an Afterwork and the Startup Live! Stage Show!

Women in Entrepreneurship Fika - 16:00 - 17:00 

(no need to sign up, just show up! - the fika will be in Lokal17 at STUDIO)

Afterwork - 17:00 - 18:00

Startup Live! Stage Show - 18:00 - 19:30

Afterparty Mingle - 19:30 - 21:00


Questions? Contact sarah@skanestartups.com

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Schedule

16:00

Women in Entrepreneurship Fika

Erika Ollén will introduce you to the world of non-alcoholic spirits - mentally and physically. 

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17:00

Afterwork

Let's start the evening with an afterwork!

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18:00

Welcome to Startup Live!

Welcome to Startup Live! by the night's Host - Alexandra Antgren 

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18:05

Your local startup community

Meet Vala Zulfiu - the new CEO of Skåne Startups!

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18:10

Growth, Growth & more Growth

Anita Cedergren will be sharing what it's like going from a few employees to 50 and how to keep company culture thriving when aiming for the stars!

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18:17

It's all about the Money, is it?!

Donna has recently closed a seed round of $2.5 million - Rik Nauta will share with us why the right investor is so important and why you should be looking for more than just money. 

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18:30

How we fu*ked up

Erik Wilson and Ken Madsen will share their intense and life changing experiences through looking back on their own startup journey. 

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18:45

From Zero to Startup

Nathalie Lameri be sharing with us how she figured out what product market fit really means and how she made use of the local startup scene!

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18:52

Kicking off your Startup Career

Puya Nedadahandeh, Stéphanie Bengtsson, Ilja Koren and Elin Arvidsson will talk about why you should work in a startup first, what it takes to succeed in a startup and what companies look for when hunting for talents. 

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19:20

Closing of Startup Live!

A final Thank You from the evening's moderator, Alexandra

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19:30

Afterparty

Join us for the afterparty! 

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Speakers

Erika Ollén
Founding Partner at Gnista

Gnista at the WiE Fika

Erika Ollén

Gnista is the first ever non-alcoholic spirit that truly resembles a fine spirit. It’s been highly praised in review and is made by hand in Skåne using a variety of methods (including barrel aging, distillation and concentration). Erika, Founding Partner at Gnista, will introduce you to the world of non-alcohol spirits - mentally and physically.  

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Anita Cedergren
Employee Nr. 7 at Karma

Growth, Growth & more Growth

Anita Cedergren

Anita works at Karma - a social enterprise dedicated to reducing food waste in the cafe and restaurant industry. She'll be sharing what it's like going from a few employees to 50 in the span of 4 years and keeping the mission, vision & company culture thriving as they expand to new markets. 

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Rik Nauta
Co-Founder and CEO at Donna

It's all about the Money, is it?!

Rik Nauta

Rik is the co-founder and CEO at Donna - giving lawyers AI superpowers and helps find common mistakes that occur during the drafting of an agreement. "Donna does not try to replace a lawyer with a robot, Donna replaces the robot within a lawyer". Donna has recently closed a seed round of $2.5 million. 

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Nathalie Lameri
Co-Founder at Boostified

From Zero to Startup

Nathalie Lameri

Nathalie is the Co-Founder of Boostified - a viral payment tool for retailers & brands with over 13 000 members & 200 brands using their service in the Nordic region.
She'll be sharing with us her startup journey, figuring out what product market fit really means and how she made use of the local startup scene all the way to a profitable and expanding business. 

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Erik Wilson
Co-Founder of Bylife

Panelist: How we fu*ked up

Erik Wilson

Erik was the founder and CEO of Bylife. They worked on changing our perception of how we think about indoor environment by developing smart living walls to enable all of us to be surrounded by nature indoors. After hiring a 4 people and raising a pre-seed round, the company had to close down. In this panel discussion, Erik will get raw and real with us and share the process of folding a startup, hopes for all startups and what the future looks like for him. 

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Kenneth Madsen
CEO at DXTR Tactile

Panelist: How we fu*ked up

Kenneth Madsen

Ken is the CEO at DXTR Labs, developing the World's Smartest Building Blocks to help the world embrace play. They want to help parents understand what their children are capable of, and empower children to grow to their natural potential, purely through play. Ken was in the midst of a funding round for his startup when the investors pulled out .... on the day they were supposed to sign. He'll be sharing his learnings from a hindsight point of view. 

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Puya Nedadahandeh
Legal & Executive Assistant at Kind

Kicking off your Startup Career

Puya Nedadahandeh

Puya Nedadahandeh, started his first entrepreneurial endeavour at the age of 17 with an annual conference, and he is now working for Malmö's healthtech startup Kind while also building Blixti - a customer engagement platform for the e-commerce industry. He will be telling us why he thinks that you should go work at a startup first, aswell as moderating our panel of HR peeps from startups in the region with the topic of 'Kicking off your Startup Career'.

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Stéphanie Bengtsson
HR/Culture & Customer Success Manger at Swiftcourt

Panelist: Kicking off your Startup Career

Stéphanie Bengtsson

Stéphanie is the Head of Customer Success and HR/Culture manger at Swiftcourt. Swiftcourt helps buyers and sellers make safer deals by providing them with smart digital sales contracts, e-signing, secure storage, and other transaction-related add-on services. She'll be sharing her exceptional journey and what it takes to succeed in a startup.

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Ilja Koren
People Operations Partner at Min Doktor

Panelist: Kicking off your Startup Career

Ilja Koren

Ilja is the People Operations Partner at Min Doktor. Min Doktor offers instant access to medical consultations through an app, wherever and whenever the patient needs it. He'll be joining the HR panel and share his insights in what companies are looking for when hunting for talents. 

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Elin Arvidsson
Project Manager at coherence.io

Panelist: Kicking off your Startup Career

Elin Arvidsson

Elin is a project manager at coherence.io. Coherence.io is creating an open, accessible and lightning-fast cloud platform for building scalable and persistent virtual worlds. She'll be sharing how she landed her startup job and what it takes to thrive in the startup world. 

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Alexandra Antgren
Board Member at Pink Programming

Moderator & Event Host

Alexandra Antgren

Alexandra is an Industrial Engineering student at Lund University currently taken a year off to gain real world work experience. She worked with Riteband developing their Android App and is now working for two companies: Tengai Unbiased and Nordic Makers.  Also, she is a board member at Pink Programming. 

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Organised by Malmö Startups

Sarah Gallmann, Event Lead - Startup Live!
Vala Zulfiu, CEO Skåne Startups
@valazulfiu
Karsten Deppert, Board member at Skåne Startups
@karstendc
Joel Larsson, Board member at Skåne Startups
@tilljoel
Charlotta Tönsgård, Board member at Skåne Startups
Hampus Jakobsson, Board member at Skåne Startups
@hajak
Charlotta Falvin, Chair of the Board at Skåne Startups
Jeremie Poirier, Board member at Skåne Startups