Look! I’m in a book! And next to one of my fave entrepreneurs as well 💜 thank you @neilswmurray @sophiabendz @AndreasSaari @robinwauters & @shewrote for granting me a page 🙏🏾 #thenordic100 #slush18

Pls prove me wrong: there is no GDPR friendly* alt that enables me to provide an Add to calendar option in a @Mailchimp email about an event, which the receiver is being sent a confirmation/ticket for. *doesn’t force me to show the whole guest list of emails w everyone attending

Being made redundant just after buying a house, and becoming newly pregnant, has been a ride but hey such is life, right 🤷🏼‍♀️ happy to accept your thoughts and prayers as we (soon) level up into life w two kids..

Julklappstips; this beautifully crafted story by @LolaAkinmade 🎄🎁 https://t.co/Fu6IeyOm0L

Ended the night w truffle macaroni, before getting safely back inside 🏡 so, a belated CONGRATS to Meela on the victory and thanks to @miriamolsson, @Karlsson_J & the team at @didigital_se for another enjoyable Female founders event! https://t.co/mCA25jdRGC

Next up is the *Entrepreneur of the year* award. And the winners are @brightact and its founder Sofie Wahlström & her co-founder Elinor Samuelsson. “Award-winning Digital Support for Domestic Violence Bringing Individuals & Organizations Together” https://t.co/wxkvpatDaR

“Doubts exist not only within yourself but also others.” Sana Alajmovic from Sigrid Techn. remembers being *guilty by gender* when a US journalist, post interview, explained he was hesitant about women founders fresh from Theranos news and therefore wouldn’t write.

@blingcapital’s Deqa Abukar awarded @didigital_se *Investor of the year* for her work connecting communities and the new VC fund, investing in pre-seed and seed stages 💐

Time for jury deliberation for startup pitches - while focus on stage turns to the Investor of the year award….

📍 Pitch 6: Nadja Hatem & Anuta Sjunghamn from Kliently - Creating a digiphysical one-stop-shop for all legal needs, making them available to everyone - based in #sthlmtech.

📍 Pitch 5: Charlotte Ljung from Endbright - Divorce planning, w the whole ecosystem of competencies needed to end bright - a #malmostartups co.

📍 Pitch 4: Tiffany Boswell at Meela - Individually matching women with their best fitted therapist, based on research - from, you guessed it, #gbgtech.

“Possibility to make new great deals exist, but also working with portfolio co.s to ensure they have the best opportunities.” Sofia Hasselberg *In the head of an investor* on @BonnierVentures being a long term focused investor.

Pitch break, for a chat about *Sustainable growth within tech* w Kansa Norell, Head of People and Culture at Fellowmind. “A while back people had all possibilities to swap jobs - but make no mistake, if your people are unhappy they will take first opp to jump ship”.

📍 Pitch 3: Kyoto Jansson from Noui - Building a safe real-time detection of urine tracking, to discretely notify care givers when it’s time to empty bladder - another company based in #gbgtech.

📍 Pitch 2: Lisa Rooth @scalinq - Developing high-density hardware enabling scalable quantum computers - also from #gbgtech.

📍 Pitch 1: Ellen Andréasson @EnvueTech - aka the Next-generation bio analysis tech to enter the nano world - from #gbgtech.

“Why do I succeed? I failed. My passion comes from me knowing I need really good answers for my kids when they ask what I did. I always have a Plan A and 28 other strategies of how to get there, to my wished society.” @norabavey1 got 28 yes:es from thousands of pitches.

“I can’t code to save my life, but tech isn’t the endgame but rather the tool - imagine using it to enable an equal society. If you think change can take time, you probably have the privilege of having time to wait.” @norabavey1 on the need for multiple perspectives.

But first: words from last year’s inaugurated *most important investor of the year* @norabavey1 @UnconvenVc. “I wasn’t much of an innovator but I realized, I AM an enabler. I enable people w visions build for problem solving.”

Pitches will be commented on by a jury w representants from @CherryVentures @Almiinvest @AllianceVC & @BonnierVentures. Team, thoughts around business model and how to reach profitability of extra interest.