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In the latest episode of Patric blir Ängel, we meet Johan Siwers, an angel investor and advisor to some of Sweden’s most promising entrepreneurs. Johan shares his insights on investing in personal interests, the risks of chasing trends, and his top tips for maximizing returns on 100,000 SEK. Listen to the episode here!
🇸🇪 Nordic Angels member Lars Lindgren is launching his book “My Life as a Business Angel,” where he reflects on his 40 years in the industry. He reveals the keys to successful investments, the secret to selling shares at the right time, and the mistakes you absolutely must avoid as an angel investor. In this article, Lars shares his 31 most valuable insights from over 80 angel investments.
🇸🇪 🙌🏻 A new Nordic AI center is being established to strengthen the region’s competitiveness and address societal challenges through AI. The project is co-funded by Nordic Innovation, the innovation organization under the Nordic Council of Ministers.
🇺🇸 💰 OpenAI plans to raise new capital at a valuation exceeding $100 billion, equivalent to 1.1 trillion SEK. Thrive Capital is reportedly leading the round, with funding aimed at building GPT-5.
🇸🇪 ✨ Europe’s most powerful computer is being built in Sweden. A supercomputer is under construction in Falun, featuring Nvidia’s sought-after AI chips. The initiative is backed by Swedish Ecodatacenter and American Coreweave, with a joint investment of around 8 billion SEK in the Falun facility.
🇫🇮 ♻️ Finland is set to become the world’s first country to bury spent nuclear fuel in a geological repository, where it will be stored for 100,000 years. This groundbreaking project is being hailed in the media as a crucial step for the long-term sustainability of nuclear energy and “a model for the entire world.”
🌏 🧫 New studies show that Ozempic has even greater effects than previously expected. Researchers have discovered that people taking the drug die at a lower rate from all causes, not just cardiovascular diseases. Now, scientists believe that Ozempic may actually slow down the aging process.
GlowID raises 10 MSEK
(Stockholm, a Korean skincare distributor and webshop in the Nordics): Has raised 10 MSEK in a funding round from existing investors. Early investors include NEA Partners with members Jacob Brögger, Daniel Pilotti, Rustan Panday, and Richard Båge. In conjunction with the round, Adeline Sterner joins the board.
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🇸🇪 In the latest episode of Patric blir Ängel, we meet Johan Brenner, General Partner at Creandum. This episode offers a unique insight into how Johan and Creandum operate, their strategic approach to making significant profits, how to evaluate investments, and Johan’s worst business deal and the lessons he learned from it. Listen to the episode here!
🌏 💉 The world’s first clinical trials of an mRNA vaccine against lung cancer have begun in seven countries. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death globally, with 1.8 million deaths annually. This groundbreaking vaccine has the potential to both combat and prevent the recurrence of this common cancer type.
🇪🇺 ⚠️ Mark Zuckerberg and Daniel Ek warn that Europe is falling behind in AI development due to complex and fragmented regulations. Despite having more open-source developers than the U.S., inconsistent regulations are stifling innovation, according to a joint statement from the two tech leaders.
🇺🇸 ✨ OpenAI has launched the ability to customize its most advanced language model, GPT-4. Developers can now tailor GPT-4 more effectively for specific tasks, including creating a unique tone in the model’s responses or training it on complex, domain-specific tasks.
🇪🇺 💦 The Mediterranean region is facing a severe water crisis as climate change and increased tourism deplete already scarce resources. Many islands are now forced to implement water rationing and rely on costly desalination.
🌏 💔 Maria Branyas Morera, the world’s oldest person, has passed away at the age of 117. Born in the U.S. in 1907, Morera survived two pandemics and two world wars.
🇫🇷 👮♀️ Pavel Durov, founder of the messaging app Telegram, was arrested this weekend at an airport north of Paris. He is suspected of failing to prevent criminal activity on the platform, which is used by approximately 900 million people globally.
