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Wellstreet Purpose, Mission & Vision

We believe in challenging the status quo and doing things differently.

Purpose

We exist to build and accelerate the innovations and entrepreneurs of today, leading to a better and sounder tomorrow.

Mission

Powered by our platform for company building, our capital and hands-on commitment are catalysts for fast-forwarding companies leveraging technology to build sustainable businesses.

Vision

As "the" pro-active investor with our purpose-built ecosystem, we yield the highest success rates in early stage investing.

Our DNA.

Most people don’t like change. We get that. It’s uncomfortable, scary and hard work.

But change is the price we pay for progress. Without it, good never becomes great. Fire, vaccines and space travel. All thanks to humans’ willingness to adapt and unwillingness to settle.

That “Push-Forwardness” is part of who we are. The Wellstreet DNA. It’s how we turn ideas into startups. Small businesses into big players. And players into legends. We get up in the morning to set comfort zones on fire. Rip old ways into a million new pieces. And start over... over and over again.

We’re building a tomorrow unlike yesterday. A place full of innovation, ideas and opportunities. A better world.

We believe that good things come to those who don’t wait. To those who keep pushing,

Forever Forward.

Team.

We are builders of community, providers of resources beyond capital, and drivers of positive disruption. We build sustainable and profitable tech companies for a better tomorrow.
Evelina Anttila
Evelina Anttila

Evelina Anttila is Managing Partner/CEO of Wellstreet. As a licensed attorney with a strong background in corporate mergers and acquisitions and a passion for ethical applications of artificial intelligence, Evelina joined Wellstreet in 2021 to support practice teams in the planning and execution of strategic transactions and exits, something she still performs in conjunction with the CEO role.

She is also co-founder of legal tech company Justic, advisor to AI Sweden and holds board positions. Previously she has served as an executive and startup operator at Nordic AI pioneer company Peltarion (acquired by King) and has a background as an M&A lawyer at leading Nordic law firm Mannheimer Swartling.

Evelina is a brilliant Swedish voice on AI. Up-to-date on the global AI conversation and can simplify the complex aspects of AI to a diverse audience. She looks beyond the technology hype, focusing on the problems we will be able to solve and what policy work we require along the way. No buzzwords, just business.

Evelina Anttila

Managing Partner
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Mikael Wintzell
Mikael Wintzell

Mikael is seasoned entrepreneur with a passion for discovering disruptive technologies and innovations poised to drive positive disruption to legacy business models. 

As founding partner of Wellstreet, Mikael is spearheading the IT evolution from a private investment company to a multi-faceted, multi-fund innovation ecosystem. 

Prior to founding Wellstreet, Mikael held numerous senior roles with major retail, fintech and e-commerce players including Klarna and PayEx. In addition to his role at Wellstreet, he is also a board member of Resurs Holding and Resurs Bank.

Mikael Wintzell

Founding Partner & Chairman of the Board
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Helen von Bahr
Helen von Bahr

Helen is a passionate and intrapreneurial marketing and sales expert with a solid track record of developing and optimising digital business models. With her 25 years background from numerus Swedish startups as an employee, founder, in interim and consultant positions she brings an extensive understanding of optimising digital business models, online performance and organic media and sales environment with an international focus.

A genuine team player and people person, with a strong drive to maximise results and overcome challenges. Her strengths lie in leadership, communication, managing and motivating individuals and teams and establishing and executing on set targets and strategies.

Helen von Bahr

COO
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Henric Enhörning
Henric Enhörning

Henric Enhörning worked in various management positions at the large bank SEB for over 13 years. During 6 of those years, he held several positions at the bank's Luxembourg branch, among other things in fund operations. 

Henric joined Wellstreet as a partner still when the company was in its early days, assuming the responsibility of CFO. As such, he has been a fundamental part of the company’s evolution, from a private investment company to a multi-faceted, multi-fund innovation ecosystem. Henric is Wellstreet's precious unicorn (if you don't get it, translate his surname to English)!

Henric Enhörning

Partner & Chief Governance Officer
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Armando Coppola
Armando Coppola

Armando is a fintech expert with an established reputation for leveraging technology to drive positive disruption in banking and financial services. 

At Wellstreet, Armando is oversees the dealflow and portfolio related to fintech. In addition to managing the firm’s Fintech Fund I, he is responsible for the company’s Fintech Loft program in collaboration with AWS. 

Prior to joining Wellstreet, Armando was a successful entrepreneur and investor in his own right, founding 15 successful companies and exiting 9 of them. He continues to be an active angel investor and independent advisor to a variety of startups.

Armando Coppola

Partner & Fund Manager
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Jessica Rameau
Jessica Rameau

Jessica is a seasoned investment manager with a professional history encompassing advisory, portfolio management and entrepreneurship. She has mentored 100s of startups in both the UK and Nordics ecosystems. She is passionate about supporting founders to build sustainable businesses, from a financial, environmental and societal point of view.

After joining Wellstreet as Chief Investment Officer in 2019, Jessica quickly proved essential and became a partner and the firm’s first fund manager in 2020. Currently, Jessica runs the Wellstreet Ventures Fund I as well as the Wellstreet Launchpad program in collaboration with Google for Startups. 

Prior to Wellstreet, Jessica was the founder of Five Years Time, an educational platform for entrepreneurs, and an advisor to the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) on innovation. Earlier in her career, she managed a portfolio of 35 early-stage startups in the cleantech and social impact space.

Jessica Rameau

Partner & Fund Manager
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Niclas Lehmann
Niclas Lehmann

Niclas Lehmann

CFO
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Maria Lindholm
Maria Lindholm

Maria is purpose driven with a passion for scaling companies, with experience from both the investor and the startup world. She occasionally shares her expertise on expansion and growth at Stockholm School of Economics, Sveriges Handelskammare and Business Sweden. Maria holds a dual master’s degree in Finance and International Business from Stockholm school of Economics and the University of Bocconi. She most recently headed the expansion efforts at the Foodtech company Nick’s.

As Head of Partnerships at Wellstreet she drives the strategic agenda and partner offerings to the Wellstreet network, LPs and Portfolios.

Maria Lindholm

Head of Partnerships
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Mikael Magnusson
Mikael Magnusson

Mikael Magnusson is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience in bringing together investors, customers, partners and other stakeholders to create relationships, networks and communities.

For the last 15 years, he’s worked as CEO, most of the time in the Danfo group. Mikael spearheaded Danfo’s 230 employees operations, a world leader in its segment with a presence in Norway, Denmark, the UK and the UAE. He also devotes his time to several board assignments, such as Chairman at Envise AB, board member of Indus AB, Skandiamäklarna Örebro and a couple of banks, alongside a number of assignments connected to his family’s horse farm and competition activities.

In his role at Wellstreet, Mikael Magnusson works as a bridge between investors and the team at Wellstreet, focusing on information sharing and relationship building. He also runs activities and forums for our stakeholders to interact with each other and work together . Wellstreet is on a journey to create additional added value and activities, and Mikael is an integral part of further developing these opportunities.

Mikael Magnusson

Partner & Head of Investor Relations
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Pontus Lund
Pontus Lund

Pontus is a driven intrapreneur with a background in banking, with several roles at Nordea including both customer centric-roles and business development with focus on customer growth, strategy and implementation. If you want to get Pontus excited, an invite to a creative, productive and inclusive workshop where ideas materialise into well-executed strategies is highly recommended.


Pontus has three key areas in which he thinks will make or break a business: 1) A driven team with an effective business model and well-thought gameplan. 2) A customer centric approach to design, and the experience is key for customer success. And finally, 3) let the joy in life inspire yourself and people around you for a greater good.

Pontus Lund

Investment Manager
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Joshua Seidel
Joshua Seidel

Joshua studied Management and Economics at the University of Innsbruck where he graduated in August 2022. His main focuses there were on Finance and Investment.

At Wellstreet, Joshua is a valuable team member who assists the fund managers with business models cases and evaluating companies. He focuses on both Venture Fund I and Fintech Fund I.

Prior to Wellstreet, Joshua gained various experiences in the cost management department of UniCredit in Milan and project/operations management at a Swiss digital asset platform.

Joshua Seidel

Analyst
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Marcela Mendes
Marcela Mendes

A creative person with skills and competence within both the project and marketing fields. Marcela likes to work with startups for the fast, innovative pace, and has done so since 2016. First, she worked with events at the startup hub SUP46, and marketing and community management in two startups. Now at Wellstreet, she’s part of the marketing team, responsible for communication, branding and events, and supports some external partnerships.

Marcela Mendes

Project & Marketing Manager
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Amanda Livh
Amanda Livh

Amanda is a skilled operations manager, with a strong talent for project management. Previously, she held the role of COO at Fru Olsson. Now, she is working as head of Hubs, responsible for the two offices that we have in Gothenburg and Stockholm, as well as for the events promoted in our two hubs.

Amanda likes speed and fast-paced environments that allow for quick results. Gathering the tenants for an afterwork now and again is her favorite task.

Amanda Livh

Head of Hubs
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Board & Advisors.

We are backed by industry leaders that trust, support and invest in us.
Mikael Wintzell

Mikael is seasoned entrepreneur with a passion for discovering disruptive technologies and innovations poised to drive positive disruption to legacy business models. 

As founding partner and CEO of Wellstreet, Mikael is spearheading the its evolution from a private investment company to a multi-faceted, multi-fund innovation ecosystem. 

Prior to founding Wellstreet, Mikael held numerous senior roles with major retail, fintech and e-commerce players including Klarna and PayEx. In addition to his role at Wellstreet, he is also a board member of Resurs Holding and Resurs Bank.

Mikael Wintzell

Founding Partner & Chairman of the Board
Lena Apler

Lena Apler

Fintech Investment Committee
Ulrika Valassi

Ulrika Valassi

FINTECH BOARD MEMBER
Joseph Hajj

Joseph Hajj is an experienced fintech executive who brings much added value to the Wellstreet fintech team since joining in 2022. He was an early employee at Klarna, where he worked with strategy, expansion and financing. Joseph then moved on to lead business development and expansion at Benify before co-founding Saffron, a 500 startups backed startup, and later founded Phoenician Ventures and Hardcorepayments.com. More recently Joseph was the Chief Strategy Officer of Swish, the largest Mobile wallet in Europe. He was also one of the founders, and the Vice Chairman of the board for the European Mobile Payment System Association. As of June 2021, Joseph works as an independent advisor, which he conciliates with his role at Wellstreet.

Joseph Hajj

Senior Advisor
Ola Laurin

Ola Laurin

Fintech Board Member
Carl-Viggo Östlund

Carl-Viggo Östlund

Fintech Board Member
Kenneth Nilsson

Kenneth Nilsson

Fintech Board Member
Erika Eliasson Ekberger

Erika Eliasson Ekberger

Fintech Board Member
Caroline Farberger

Caroline is a highly driven financial services executive with extensive experience leading teams and strategies in both large corporations and startup environments. 

Caroline is joining Wellstreet to serve as board chair following a successful, six-year tenure as CEO of ICA Insurance. Under her direction, ICA grew from an upstart provider to one of the fastest growing consumer insurers in Sweden. 

Upon taking on the working chair role in Sprint 2022, Caroline will play an active role in broadening the company’s business network, particularly with companies founded and led by representatives of populations often overlooked by early-stage investors.

Caroline Farberger

Senior Advisor
Sïmon Saneback

Simon has has Founding Partner of Wellstreet played a huge role in Wellstreets growth and development to what it is today. He now has a role as a Senior Advisor Communications.

Sïmon is a business executive and marketeer with substantial experience in the online industry who founded his first company at 16 years of age and have since built a handful of successful businesses and twice as many failures.

Since the late 90s, developing and growing digital brands have been two of his greatest passions. He has held several executive positions and advisory roles in fast-growing global enterprises in the last decade. Besides, he has enjoyed supporting and investing in 50+ early-stage startups.

Sïmon Saneback

Founding Partner
OUR Values. This is how we make our portfolio companies grow.

Always learn.
Analyse, iterate and try again. Get out of your comfort zone, learn from others and strive to improve.

Be purposeful and thorough.
Collect information and document processes. Set your intention, apply discipline, systematically.

Collaborate.
Use, build and broker partnerships. Nurture and facilitate them, collaborate.

Communicate Frank.
Openness, Honesty, Transparency, Efficiency. Share your failures and celebrate your successes.

Forever Forward.
Be the change you want to see. Be pioneers, take calculated risks. Be bold go where no one has gone before.