The Jury
By joining Startup 4 Climate, contestants have the opportunity to pitch their ideas to our jury of experts. Two winners will share a prize of 2 million SEK, as well as coaching from the expert jury, to help catalyze their ideas and contribute to the energy transition. The winners choose which jurymember they want coaching from.
Learn more about our jury of experts.
Stefan Krook is a serial social entrepreneur with vast experience from the telecom, IT and electricity sectors. In 1997 he co-founded internet service provider Glocalnet which later merged into Telenor Sverige. He co-founded the GoodCause Foundation where he is also chairman. The foundation has started companies such as GodEl and GodFond. Stefan is co-founder and chairman of Kivra.
Interview with Stefan Krook in Affärsvärlden:
Profilen bakom miljardärernas elbolag, entreprenörskap är min enda talang.
Johan Lindehag is the CEO of Ellevio, one of the largest electricity distribution companies in Sweden with nearly one million customers. Johan has more than 20 years of experience from the energy sector, and prior to his position at Ellevio he occupied several senior management positions within the industry. Johan is also a member of the Board of Directors of the energy startup Flower Technology (formerly Krafthem) that is focusing on power flexibility to enable the energy transition.
Jane Walerud has been a successful serial entrepreneur and private investor since 2002. She has invested in several successful companies, including Klarna and Lensway. Nowadays, the family business Walerud Ventures focuses on deep tech, clean tech and AI first companies. The current active portfolio includes Volumental, Graphmatech, Swedish Algae Factory and Racefox.
Interview with Jane Walerud in DI.se.
Lyfte Klarna nu ska hon rädda världen med djupteknik.
Lina Bertling Tjernberg is a Professor, and Director of the Energy platform, at KTH the Royal Institute of Technology. Her research and teaching are focused on power grid technology for sustainable developments with special interest in reliability analysis, predictive maintenance and asset management. She is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Power & Energy Society. She was also selected as “Årets Kraftkvinna” 2022.
Interview with Lina in DN.se
Forskaren som vill vara den sansade i energidebatten – DN.SE
Johanna Mossberg is Head Resource Efficient Community Department at the Swedish Energy Agency, as well as adjunct senior lecturer in energy science at Luleå University of Technology. Mossberg holds in-depth knowledge on topics such as environmental improvement assessment of industrial production and biorefinery concepts and analysis of industrial transition. She has previously been managing director of f3 – the Swedish knowledge centre for renewable transportation fuels.
Interview with Johanna.
Den biobaserade vägen till den fossilfria framtiden.
Remind yourself and the world ‘why’ you do what you do and share your dream – and include why you will make it in your story. I look for entrepreneurs with the right drive and values, who have a unique combination of humility and passion and who confidently represent their team.
What are your best tips for entrepreneurs who want to participate in S4C 2023?
Tell us what impact what you do will make on the world and what your customers-or potential customers- plan to do with you.
What qualities do you look for when judging the competition entries?
Good communication skills!
Start from what is unique about your product and how you contribute to the sustainable society of the future. Qualities I look for are solid knowledge of one’s field and a great energy and drive to realize it.
What do you look for in promising entrepreneurs?
Visions in the form of a will to make a difference, creativity in the form of being able to solve many different types of problems without losing courage, as well as social excellence and the ability to build formal and informal teams and “supporting environments”. It is not always the best idea engineering wise that succeeds, rather the one around which you manage to enthuse and mobilize resources.
Do you have any tips for this year’s competing entrepreneurs?
Demonstrate multiple benefits, such as various solutions for energy efficiency that are, for example, good for both cost, climate, and security of supply. Not forgetting the system perspective and issues around resource efficiency. Solutions with several different benefits are more flexible when dealing with changes in the market and thus more “future-proof.