Partners & Experts
Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration. Our cherry-picked partners and industry experts help our startups to grow stronger, faster.
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Sting Industry Experts
At Sting, startups get more than advice — they get access. Our Industry Experts are a hand-picked network of senior professionals, specialists, and operators with real-world experience in sectors like ClimateTech, DeepTech, Health, SaaS, and more.
Whether you’re refining your go-to-market strategy, navigating regulatory hurdles, or preparing for international expansion, our experts are here to challenge, guide, and support you, every step of the way.
Christina Östberg Lloyd
Christina Östberg Lloyd, M.D., Women’s Health expert and advocate. Long track record of executive leadership and strategic management in Life Science industries and board engagements. Chairwoman of ViLDA, network for executive female Life Science. Currently running own business as an executive consultant, expert and mentorship.
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Sofia Svanteson
Sofia Svanteson is an internationally experienced serial entrepreneur who serves as a strategic advisor to innovative startups, with particular expertise in health tech, life science, and human-centered design. Drawing from her 23-year journey of building businesses across global markets, including the United States and Japan, she brings deep insights into product & business development, and market expansion strategies. As a recognised industry expert and public speaker, she actively champions innovation at the intersection of technology and healthcare, helping organisations transform their ideas into impactful solutions.
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Reidar Gårdebäck
More than thirty years of experience in sales and marketing of medtech and IT solutions for healthcare. Have had several CEO positions in large cooperations like GE, Medtronic and public listed companies on NASDAQ. Entrepreneur experience in venture capital and seed financing as well as working in incubator environment as program director for Medtech4Health which is an innovation program financed by Vinnova. Focus during the years has been establishing sales and marketing activities and partnerships in an international market and submission of more than seven hundred procurement bids.
Nasim Bergman Farrokhniav
Senior lecturer at Karolinska Institute, Chairperson of eHealth Doctors and member of the board at Health Integrator and FindOut Diagnostics.
Tomas Wall
Business Angel and investor from Sustainable Energy Angels AB, Development and Strategy Consultant. Board Member of several tech companies.
Christina Lundbäck
Founder and Chairman of the board of SurfCleaner, as well as bord member of CorPower Ocean and Cascade Drives.
Astrid Friborg
Astrid Friborg brings over 15 years in leadership roles including 3 years of coaching deep tech and impact startups, supporting Sweden’s future technology companies in their growth journey. Her career highlights include being founder and CEO of Sting alumni Deeptech / Foodtech startup Berries by Astrid as well as from working at a large corporation, and her current role at Produktionsänglar, where she advises startups on industrialization and sustainability. Astrid holds a PhD in Biomedical Sciences and has advanced training in finance and leadership.
Caroline Walerud
Entrepreneur and investor in planet-positive deep tech. Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Volumental and AirForestry. Partner at Walerud Ventures and Mentor at CDL.
Lena Höglund
Chairman of Leksell Gamma Knife Society and former VP of Global Marketing Neuro Solutions at Elekta
Jesper Ek
Leadership evangelist and author of the book Emplayment. 25 years of experience in Pharma/Life science in C level positions at Biovitrum/Sobi and Roche. Leadership and Strategyconsultant and CEO Medicator AB. Certified Board person at Styrelseakademin.Experience helping start ups scale their leadership. Defining WHY and how to make this come alive in your company culture. Extensive network in Life Science. Marketing and Sales strategies for growth.
Thomas Öström
Serial entreprenour within Climatetech and passionate for business ideas and technologies with maximized climate impact.
Rickard Lagerqvist
Medical doctor and serial entrepreneur focusing on HealthTech with companies such as Mindler and Werlabs in the portfolio.
Paul Fischbein
Investor within the e-commerce and consumer services industries and Chairman of the Board of PriceRunner, RevolutionRace and Fyndiq, among others.
Marie Fossum Strannegård
CEO at IVL, Swedish Environmental Institute, a company offering research and consulting services.
Anders Lundström
Founder of Svenska Aerogel Holding AB, Chairman and Board member of several tech companies.
Sting Partners
We don’t build startups alone — and neither should you. Sting works closely with a trusted network of partners in legal, finance, recruitment, branding, product development, and more. These are experts we know, trust, and collaborate with to give our startups and alumni the sharpest edge possible, from day one to scale-up and beyond.
