Highway to Scale

In today's episode of Highway to Scale, we’re joined by Viktor Johansson, the Co-Founder and CEO of Digip — legal tech SaaS company that offers trademark accessible and affordable protection. Viktor will tell us more about the rapidly growing legal-tech industry, what's it like to build a company alongside 2 other co-founders and why one of the aspects of building a strong and successful business lies in owning your brand.

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GUEST:
Viktor Johansson — Digip Co-Founder & CEO
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ABOUT VIKTOR:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktor-johansson-34a7179/

Viktor is the Co-Founder and CEO of Digip — a legal tech company with the objective to provide an end-to-end digital solution for brand protection.

He started his career as an IP counsel but transitioned into strategic and commercial roles within the internet digital sector and, in addition to that, he is passionate about creating and implementing commercial strategies that turn into real actions and results.

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ABOUT DIGIP:
https://www.digip.com
https://www.linkedin.com/company/digip/

Digip is a legal tech company with the objective to provide an end-to-end digital solution for brand protection. They provide tailored solutions combining using digital technology to digitize the IP protection market and to create the best possible experience for their clients.

Their platform offers an on-demand trademark registration and protection service that gives entrepreneurs and established businesses an opportunity to protect and strengthen their brand names worldwide in a digital and user-friendly environment

By combining tech, know-how, and investments, Digip creates the most innovative technology on the market to enhance the customer experience, streamline processes and lower the cost of intellectual property protection.

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In today's episode of Highway to Scale, we’re joined by Vasilij Brandt, the Founder of Blazar Capital, and a Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer at Nordgreen. In this podcast, Vasilij will tell us more about the work of start-up incubators as well as the process of building and scaling e-commerce businesses.

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GUEST:
Vasilij Brandt — Founder of Blazar Capital
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ABOUT VASILIJ:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasilij-brandt/
www.vasilijbrandt.com

Vasilij Brandt is the Co-Founder and CMO at Blazar Capital, and also a Co-Founder and Member of The Board at Nordgreen. He owns Master of Science degrees from The Technical University of Berlin as well as The University of Twente.

He is a Danish e-commerce enthusiast, digital entrepreneur, and Forbes 30 Under 30 alumni. Prior to co-founding Blazar Capital and Nordgreen, Vasilij was the Head of Growth at the Hut Group —  one of Europe's leading e-commerce portfolio companies and one of Europe's few unicorns with a primary focus on health, beauty, prestige, and nutrition-related consumer goods.

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ABOUT BLAZAR:
https://blazarcapital.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/blazarcapital/

Blazar Capital is a company builder in the Internet space. They create ideas, partner with entrepreneurs and CEOs to establish the companies behind them and provide investments and expertise to quickly achieve global leadership.

Blazer Capital only focuses on ideas with truly global scale and innovative business models that can disrupt the markets they operate in. Nordgreen is one of those companies — it's a watch brand with a rich Scandinavian tradition that interlinks purpose and time functionality with timeless aesthetic appeal that can be passed on to the next generation. Nordgreen's vision is to pioneer inspirational Scandinavian design and to use our business to inspire awareness and action about the challenges facing the planet, and humanity.

Since the launch of Blazar Capital in 2017, they’ve incubated Nordgreen, Chamberlain Coffee, Scandinavian Biolabs, MessyWeekend, and as well as several other brands and their products have been sold to more than 100 countries.

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In today's episode of Highway to Scale, we’re joined by Louise Gauffin and David Wickström, who are the CEO and CTO of Skyqraft — a visual data analytics provider that helps utility companies make better decisions about their grids. In this episode, Louise and David will tell us more about using AI to provide clients with data and insights needed to plan and maintain their existing and future infrastructure.
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GUESTS:
Louise Gauffin and David Wickström — Skyqraft CEO and CTO
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ABOUT LOUISE AND DAVID:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisegauffin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-almroth

Louise is the CEO of Skyqraft and she spent her career working as an intrapreneur building and scaling organizations in fast-paced international environments. After spending 20 years abroad, she decided that the next step in her career was the Tech startup scene in Sweden.

David is the co-founder, CTO and the main AI architect of Skyqraft with 20+ years of experience leading high-tech performing software development teams, and he’s been into computers and gaming ever since he was a kid.

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ABOUT SKYQRAFT:
https://www.skyqraft.com
https://www.linkedin.com/company/skyqraft/

Skyqraft is a visual data analytics provider helping utility companies make better decisions about their grids. Leveraging artificial intelligence, aerial grid images are converted into powerful and usable management information — by analyzing and visually displaying grid insights, Skyqraft enables utility companies to make smarter, more sustainable and cost-efficient decisions about their grid maintenance.

Today, Skyqraft is a trusted partner of some of the most forward-looking and influential utilities in Europe and North America, providing them with the data and insights needed to plan and maintain future linear infrastructure.

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In today's episode of Highway to Scale, we’re joined by Mathias Wikström, CEO & Co-Founder of Doconomy — a company that provides digital services for everyday climate action that turn your spending into a financial power for a sustainable future. In this podcast, Mathias will tell us more about impact tech, how our understanding of impact is reshaping all commercial activity on Earth and how we can use financial tools to educate and drive positive change.

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GUEST:
Mathias Wikström —CEO & Co-Founder of Doconomy
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ABOUT MATHIAS WIKSTRÖM:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathiasw1/

Mathias Wikström is a Sweden-based renowned sustainability business leader and creative strategist. He founded Doconomy together with Johan Pihl and spearheaded globally awarded forefront projects in Finance, Sustainability and Human Rights.

He has received an EMBA with honors at Stockholm School of Economics with a focus on Leading Innovation. Mathias has won several Grand Prix at Cannes Lions and served on many award juries, as President for Innovation in Eurobest amongst others. He is a high-scoring speaker at industry summits in Europe, the USA, Asia, and Latin America as well as with the UN and UNFCCC.

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ABOUT DOCONOMY:
https://doconomy.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/doconomy/

Doconomy is a fintech startup that provides leading impact data services for individuals and corporations to help educate, engage and reduce environmental impact. They believe that people want to contribute to saving the planet but are hindered by insufficient tools to do so.

Their solution for consumers is called DO — a mobile banking service that enables users to understand the impact of their daily choices. This allows people to adjust behavior, and to compensate for their impact on the planet.

Åland Index, a cloud-based service for climate impact calculations, is their enterprise service. It’s the leading index solution for CO2 emission calculations for payments and financial transactions with banks representing over 500 000 000 users and growing.

Their next-gen transparency tool for brands and producers is called The 2030 Calculator — a Product Carbon Footprint Tool. It that can help others to better understand the carbon footprint of the products and materials they produce as well as provide the transparency that will allow consumers to make informed consumption choices.


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In today's episode of Highway to Scale, we’re joined by Jonatan Marc Rasmussen, the Co-Founder and CEO of All Gravy —  a financial wellness app for hourly paid employees. In this episode, Jonatan will tell us more about the current state of the gig economy and how businesses can improve their employees' financial well-being.

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GUEST:
Jonatan Marc Rasmussen — All Gravy CEO & Co-founder
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ABOUT JONATAN:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonatanmarc/

Jonatan Marc Rasmussen is the Co-Founder and CEO of All Gravy — a venture-funded Fintech solution for hourly paid and gig workers in Denmark. He’s a former management consultant turned entrepreneur, with experience in venture-building, commercial strategy and innovation.

Since the dark days of consulting, he’s focused on the startup world working on the venture side helping create startups and scaling scale-ups always with a keen focus on customer-led products. He learned the ropes as a Strategy Consultant working primarily for Financial Institutions across Europe.

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ABOUT All Gravy:
https://www.allgravy.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/allgravy/

All Gravy is the app for hourly paid employees. It gives them a live payslip and full control over their money. With All Gravy, they have an overview of their earnings, bills and savings goals, and access to their salary as soon as they have finished their shift. 

Employers benefit from a more motivated workforce, who are more likely to take shifts and can save their finance and HR teams a lot of time by ensuring their employees always understand which shifts they are getting paid for at which times.

All Gravy is a venture-backed company, backed by Founders who have built companies such as Pleo and Kontist.

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In today's episode of Highway to Scale, we’re joined by  Vincent Weir, Founding Partner at Invenio Growth —  a Stockholm-based management consultancy that helps corporations and other capital allocators engage the startup and investor ecosystems.  In this podcast, Vincent will tell us more about the current state of the venture capital industry, the importance of impact investing for overall business success, and the ways VC companies help fund solutions to society's biggest problems.

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GUEST:

Vincent Weir  — Partner at Invenio Growth
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ABOUT VINCENT:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-weir-7a295354/ 

Vincent Weir is an entrepreneur, consultant and adviser who defines his mission as linking people and ideas across platforms that empower them.

He completed the pivots from liberal arts to management consulting to product management to venture capital, sustaining constant feedback from some of the world's smartest people along the way. Working in Europe, he learned to navigate team rooms with different languages and cultures, through lingering recessions and more hopeful times.

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ABOUT INVENIO GROWTH:

https://inveniogrowth.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/invenio-growth/

Invenio assists clients in identifying and implementing growth strategies in the venture economy, they also assist leaders in interpreting trends in the startup ecosystem and they translate those insights into initiatives and actions such as open innovation, company building, and venture M&A.

Invenio was born out of NFT Ventures, one of the largest fintech venture portfolios in Europe. Their team evaluates thousands of startups each year and brings insights from the VC investment world to the growth projects they advise and operate. Their growth orientation makes Invenio a strong partner for growth cases, and they strive to deliver results from the planning phase through implementation.

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In today's episode of Highway to Scale, we’re joined by Søren, who is the co-founder and CEO of Teamway — a member-owned society where world-class tech professionals team up with bold companies to build the products and services of tomorrow. Søren will tell us more about the way he sees the future of work, why a great team is a key aspect of achieving success and what are the benefits of building a member-owned business. 

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GUEST:
Søren Nørgaard  — Teamway Co-Founder and CEO
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ABOUT SØREN:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sorennorgard/ 

Søren is the co-founder and CEO of Teamway, and a seasoned entrepreneur who spent the last decade building, launching and scaling products and services in Scandinavia, Asia and the Silicon Valley. 

His entrepreneurship career started from a young age — from selling tractors with his dad, and reselling sneakers as a teenager, to building Teamway, a global community-led marketplace in 2020.
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ABOUT TEAMWAY:

https://teamway.io/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/theteamway/ 

Teamway is a member-owned society where world-class tech professionals team up with bold companies to build the products and services of tomorrow. 

It's the new way for companies to create, hire and manage remote tech talent while creating fair opportunities for both the talent and the organizations — they’re shaping the future of work by building the home for the world's elastic workforce.

Teamway connects great companies with the best freelance tech teams through their global community-led marketplace in a remote, elastic and mutually trusted setup. This empowers companies to transform into modern elastic organizations and it creates a new more inclusive work environment for their freelance members.

They work with exciting startups, innovation labs and enterprises like IKEA and Verisure who use Teamway to accelerate innovation, build new products and make their organizations more agile.

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In today's episode I'm joined by Liviu who is the CEO of DRUID. Liviu will tell us more about the changes that happened at DRUID since our previous podcast, what are conversational business applications and how to use artificial intelligence to improve customer experience.
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HOSTED BY:
Dorian — Bornfight Content Creator
https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/
[email protected]
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GUEST:
Liviu Dragan — DRUID CEO
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ABOUT LIVIU:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/liviudragan/

Liviu created two of the most renowned Romanian IT brands – TotalSoft and Charisma. And these two brands have been a valuable business card for the Romanian software industry.  As a founding member and president of the Software and Services Industry Association, Liviu was actively involved in promoting the Romanian IT industry, and then at the beginning of 2018, he started his new success story when he founded DRUID.
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ABOUT DRUID:
https://www.druidai.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/druidplatform/

DRUID is an AI-powered platform that allows users to design, develop and deploy natural and rich interactions between employees, customers, partners and enterprise systems, through omnichannel text and voice conversations.

In short, DRUID brings human conversation to the enterprise world in the most intuitive, efficient and human-like way.
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In today's episode of Highway to Scale I'm joined by David who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Eppione. David will tell us more about the challenges and opportunities within the human resources industry, the importance of data for business success and the benefits of surrounding yourself with exceptional co-founders and team members.
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HOSTED BY:
Dorian — Bornfight Content Creator
https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/
[email protected]
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GUEST:
David Kindlon — Eppione CEO
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ABOUT DAVID:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidkindlon/

David has been an insurance specialist since 2001, running the family insurance brokerage business in Dublin, Ireland. He is passionate about helping small and medium enterprises maximize their potential through the use of leading edge technologies and advisory services. David was a council member of the Irish Brokers Association.
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ABOUT EPPIONE:
https://eppione.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/eppione/

Eppione supports businesses to empower, inspire and nurture their employees through technology and employee benefits.

Their integrated HR & employee benefits platform is more than just a HRIS. With flexible employee benefits access and visibility, as well as an advanced business intelligence module, Eppione helps users support and understand their unique workforce like never before – while reducing the time and resource of day-to-day HR admin.

Eppione's dedicated team of experts also support businesses of all shapes and sizes to find the right insurance, pension and employee benefits plans to suit their unique workforce.
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In today's episode of Highway to Scale I'm joined by Jordan who is the Founder and Partner at Rainmaking, as well as a CEO of the Rainmaking Venture Studio. Jordan will tell us more about the process of corporate venture building, why startup co-founders need to be able to navigate and thrive in uncertainty, and why a long-term vision of a company is important for its success.
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HOSTED BY:
Dorian — Bornfight Content Creator
https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdorian/
[email protected]
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GUEST:
Jordan Schlipf — Rainmaking Founder and Partner
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ABOUT JORDAN:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-schlipf-0b855174/

Jordan is a Founder & Partner at Rainmaking, a global corporate innovation and venture development firm.

He is a serial tech founder, early-stage investor and an expert Lean Startup trainer. Today, Jordan is a Venture Partner at Vectr Ventures and CEO of the Rainmaking Venture Studio, an investment-only Corporate Venture Builder ('CVB').
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ABOUT RAINMAKING:
https://rainmaking.io/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/rainmaking/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/rainmaking-venture-studio/

Rainmaking is a global corporate innovation and venture development firm. Their Venture Studio offers a model for large companies to acquire the startups they want at the time that they need them at a price they can afford.

Rainmaking Venture Studio combines the scale strengths of large companies with their deep experience in building ventures to create high-growth ventures. This approach de-risks the process of building strategically aligned businesses for their corporate partners, without losing long-term ownership.

Rainmaking acts as professional venture builders and investors, co-investing with companies and sharing in the risk and reward. They are not consultants or a development agency, so they never charge fees, but act as true partners.
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