Donnie SC Lygonis

KTH Innovation

At KTH Innovation my job is to meet and coach researchers and students at The Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, in Stockholm, and help them commercialize their ideas and results.

I am humbled to be able to spend my days working hands-on with exponential technologies and people with ideas that actually have the potential to change & save the world. 

I have also have had the opportunity to be a part of KTH Innovation's own innovation process and helped develop the organization, some of the things I have helped co-create so far are:

- 15 TEDx events (http://www.tedxkth.com)
- The Innovation Pavilion (http://www.kth.se/innovation/passion/love-1.74062)
- The KTH Innovation Pre-Incubator Program  (https://www.kth.se/en/innovation/forinkubator)
- The Early Bird Network (http://www.kth.se/innovation/investera/earlybird-1.58191)
- Open Lab (http://openlab.se/)
- Student Innovator Award (https://www.facebook.com/events/202513163218458/)
- Armada Startup

Innovation Strategist & Business Coach

Entrepreneurs without borders

Entrepreneurs Without Borders (EWB) is a business driven non profit that aims to help local founders start and grow sustainable businesses. We have developed our proprietary framework that we call Entrepreneur2030, which is part of our vision that no startups are started without a clear idea of which global goal(s) they are trying to solve (see the UN 17 SDGs for 2030).

I got the first idea of EWB back in 2011, and started working actively on it in 2016, and 2019 we started our first pilot of our virtual campus for startups, offering workshops, lots of peer-to-peer learning, and a global alumni network with like-minded people.

Founder

Nordic Ignite

Nordic Ignite is an angel investment network that supports early-stage companies in the Nordics and Baltics, at pre-seed level. We focus on sectors where the Nordics have a competitive advantage, deep knowledge and strong infrastructure. 

In my role as an Angel ambassador I help provide deal flow, add input to investment decisions and help mentor portfolio investments.

Angel Ambassador

Constant Innovation AB

Constant Innovation is an early stage idea accelerator founded and run by me and my sister Deborah. We have been active on the Nordic startup scene since 1995 when we founded our first startup; children’s game publisher Romelix Interactive. Since then we have founded, supported and invested in more than 50 startups. Today we focus our efforts on projects connected to social good and sustainability.

To sign up for news on investment opportunities or booking us for speaking engagements, please get in touch.

Concept Developer & Professional Speaker

Validicity AB

Patent Pending blockchain solution aiming to solve the chain of custody issues in anti-doping. Developed in collaboration with the Arne Ljungqvist Foundation with anti-doping in mind, however the solution can be used for any logistics in general where proof-of-tamper is important.

Co-Founder

Mellanmål of Sweden

Mellanmål of Sweden is a US based company that imports and sells Swedish and Nordic healthy food products in the US. We have a full one-stop-shop operation and offer shipping, import, warehousing, sales and distribution all across USA.

Friendbase

Friendbase is the worlds first truly cross-platform virtual world chat service, where cell phone users seamlessly interact with computer users in realtime. It's a place for young people to meet and hang out with old and new friends, play games, cultivate pets, design and furnish their own apartments and much more.

We (the founding team) have more than 15 yrs experience from the game industry and business development, and have taken the product from idea to released product with over 2 500 000 users  (main user group being girls 14-20) using only social media and viral spread, no paid advertising or PR. 

http://www.friendbase.com

Founder and concept developer

Various gyms and fitness centers

I have been working as a fitness instructor since 1994. I started out at a small but great gym called Saga Motion and then moved on to Olympic Fitness in Göteborg, that was later aquired by SATS, and at the same time I started working as a boxing instructor. When I moved back to Stockholm I moved over to Kroppskultur and evolved into kickboxing and more classic boxing. After that I spent five years at World Class Vasastan and nowadays you'll find me at Nordic Wellness Odenplan Stockholm.

Fitness Instructor

Nordic Innovation House

I was picked as the first Swede to go to Silicon Valley on a Fellowship in a new pilot program run by the Swedish innovation agency Vinnova. The program is a four year pilot that will send over two senior advisors per year from the Swedish innovation system for 10 months each, in an effort to create and sustain a platform for Swedish startups in Silicon Valley as well as figure out how Sweden can create a more sustainable and scalable way of exporting ideas and getting them ready for a global market. 

Read more about my experiences on my blog: 

http://kth.se/blogs/donnie

Senior Advisor

Lohilo AB

I got the idea of creating a healthy ice cream back in 2011 but didn't act on it until 2013 when I contacted Swedish ice cream producers Alvestaglass. Together we developed Sweden's first ice cream for people who live an active life style and/or care about what they eat. 

I came up with the name Lohilo when trying to figure out what to call something that was Lo(w) on sugar, Hi(gh) on protein and Lo(w) on fat. Lo-Hi-Lo. As simple as that. 

We released the first product in June 2014 and then started distributing to shops in September and reached national coverage in only six months with a presence in over 600 stores, and the rest is as they say, history. 

The branding was done by my me and some friends and the whole thing was a by-the-book boot-strapped startup success story, growth hacked all the way, The first images on the boxes were friends from the gym, shot by a photographer that did it all pro-bono. 

The vision from the start was to create a brand that could become a health food brand, selling a lot more than ice cream, and who knows where the story will end?

SuperConnector | Innovation Strategist | Sustainable Innovation | Food Entrepreneur | 6x TEDx Speaker | Live on LinkedIn Wednesdays 2.30pm CET 🌞

I work as an Innovation Strategist and Business Coach at KTH Innovation, where I have been helping researchers and students at The Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, in Stockholm, for over 14 years. I assist them in turning their ideas and results into viable products and services. I love working hands-on with exponential technologies and people who have world-changing and world-saving ideas.

I am the founder of Entrepreneurs Without Borders, a non-profit organization that supports female entrepreneurs in starting and scaling sustainable businesses that align with the UN 17 SDGs for 2030. 

My latest own venture is Mellanmål Inc, a US based company focused on bringing Swedish better-for-you-and-the-planet food products to America and later the world, aiming to build a global leader in healthier snacks and small bites. 

Besides that, I am an experienced speaker, pitch coach, and serial entrepreneur, with patents and successes in various fields. I have also appeared in several TV shows as a jury and expert, and given 6 TEDx talks on topics related to innovation, entrepreneurship, and social impact.

What a crazy place to work... Just the past a few days... We used to say "It all starts here" and now we say "start here, go anywhere" 

⭐ Maja Åstrand Co-founder of Simulair is awarded the Stiftelsen SKAPA grand prize. 

⭐ Ella Karlsson Co-founder of Permly.ai is awarded best young business idea Solna stad 

⭐ Jonatan Hellvig and his teammate were awarded Bragdguldet for their Olympic beach volleyball win

⭐ Anton Osika and Fabian Edin, founders of Lovable were awarded the KTH Innovation Award 

⭐Katarina Hedbeck Co-founder of Interlinked AB received the Entrepreneurs Without Borders Award

⭐ The KTH Innovation Readiness Level framework now has just almost 4000 organisations using it, all over the world, I am currently in Brazil to workshop with universities and innovation hubs. 

And today it's time for another edition of KTH Innovation Collide, the meeting place of all of our people and many many more - over 500 signed up so far!

Teknikringen 1 - 17:00 to 19:00 - come and join the fun!

All. Images below courtesy of the photographers named in the posts

https://lnkd.in/dyGbpZAN

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Wohoo!! Big trumpets, happy fireworks! 

So glad to see the 2025 awardee of the Entrepreneurs Without Borders EWB Award receive this well deserved prize, joining the ranks of other great female founders like Maja Åstrand Sandra Vahdani of Simulair, Rutvika Acharya of Caplyzer, Kristina Stojanovic Leyla Ali Dholey of ex-Ovulai, Laura Jardine Paterson of CONCAT Tech, Dominique Uwase Alonga of ImagineWe Publishers. 

Well done and congratulations! 

Congratulations Katarina Hedbeck and Rebecca Stjernberg Bejhed and well done with all your work with Interlinked AB!  

https://lnkd.in/dJhducTF

View company: Entrepreneurs Without Borders

Happy to announce the 2025 EWB Award recipient Katarina Hedbeck, co-founder of Interlinked AB together with Rebecca Stjernberg Bejhed. 

This year's theme was "Grit and Perseverance" and we could not have found a better recipient that this team. 

Well deserved! 🥳🎉🎆🎇

And thank you to all prize sponsors that help make this such a valuable award 🙏❤️

Brainspot Innovation AB / Hans Alveros
The Branding Table / Kim Westerlund
Validicity AB / Deborah B. Lygonis
Pareto 80/20 / Maria Malmsjö Söderberg

And of course a large THANK YOU to our venue sponsor Vasakronan Pernilla Långström🙏🤗

Good Morning Monday Morning! 🤗🎉

From Curitiba, Brazil where I am spending the week with the innovation ecosystem going through the KTH Innovation Readiness Level, but that's not stopping us from getting the week going, right? 

This week:

Tuesday International Anti-Corruption Day
Tuesday Pepparkakans Dag 

Wednesday Nobel Day 
Wednesday Innovation Fika, something from Brazil, yes! 

Thursday Mountain's Day 

Friday International Day for Universal Health Care (shoutout to Nonso Opurum founder of SOSO CARE winner of the Entrepreneurs Without Borders EWB Award in 2022)

Saturday 13th is of course Lucia! ❤️

Sunday 3rd of Advent 🕯️🕯️🕯️
Sunday 14th is also Sustainable Entrepreneurship Day, a day started by Entrepreneurs Without Borders some years back.

So, get up get going, tag a friend, let's make this a great week for the world!

IT'S MONDAY!!

#superconnectorthursday and my 16th Anniversary at KTH Innovation 😲😅🥳

For my anniversary, I want you to:

1. Post your need in the comments below 👇
2. Scroll the comments and help people who have posted, OR post / tag someone else you know is looking for something! 🤗
3. Share the posts so more people can see it! 👀

Here we go my friends -#superconnectorthursday!

Morning everyone! Happy Friday 🥳

It's the International Volunteer Day today, so if you aren't volunteering yourself, help others that are! Donate to your favorite organization - or why not help people find what they need in my #superconnectorthursday post from yesterday? 

Here's the link to that post, I know there are some cool companies looking for people and also some other needs there!

https://lnkd.in/drvyeYy6

Have a happy Friday and a nice weekend, see you all next week! 

#volunteer #beabetterperson

Idag på Nobeldagen kommer här ett helt ojobbmässigt, obusinessigt, okarriärgrundande och oseriöst (plankar dina o-n där Charlotta Alnersson!) men varje dag på instagram så kör jag lucköppning av min julkalender som jag fick av mamma 🤗

En te-kalender med 25 teer, en för julens alla dagar (och ja 25, hon är ju engelska trots allt). 

Har tagit med mig 10 st på resan till Brasilien så jag inte missar några dagar pga resan, så det blir lucköppning på hotellrummet på morgonen innan dagen börjar. 

Idag vart det Tranbär, Hibiskus och Nypon! 🍵🫖 

Här länken till insta https://lnkd.in/dW7YcHSe

HAPPY NOBEL!

Finna

Building the all-in-one operating system for Investor Relations departments (IR OS)

Finna is revolutionizing how public companies engage with investors through AI-powered automation:
- Cutting annual report creation time from months to days while reducing costs by 40-60%
- Enabling 24/7 investor engagement through AI-powered assistance
- Streamlining CSRD compliance for European companies
- Modernizing IR workflows with integrated tools for investor CRM, ESG reporting, and regulatory filings

We're transforming IR departments from cost centers into strategic assets, helping companies build stronger relationships with their investors while ensuring compliance and efficiency. 🚀

Co-Founder & CEO

HackerPM

HackerPM teaches technical concepts in an interactive and easy-to-understand way for non-technical founders and product managers.

Get technically versed in less than 30 days. Sign up for the free newsletter on HackerPM.com. 

Learn how to use AI tools such as Cursor, V0 and others to build and manage your products.

Founder and Instructor

Stockholm Founders Coral

We are a community of founders, entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, and everyone who is interested in effective entrepreneurship.

At Sthlm Founders Coral, we empower leaders to become effective entrepreneurs by helping them build healthy habits. 

Effective entrepreneurs are high performers who remain mindful, creative, curious, and inclusive. 😇

Visit our website to learn more, and join our Discord server to enjoy our events and activities: 
https://sthlmfounders.club/

Co-Founder & Community Builder

Vectorboard | Optimize and Evaluate your LLMs

Built an open-source LLM monitoring and evaluation tool to improve RAG application performance.

We got 1000s of installs and users in the first few months.

Open source AI engineer and Founder

Juni

Built the registration flow to onboard business customers as efficiently as possible. 

Together with the FinCrime organization at Juni, handled the complex Lithuanian regulations and compliance needs, at the same time, stakeholder management internally across Sales, Customer Success, Onboarding, Marketing, Compliance, and Revenue Operations. 

Only in Oct 2022, we halved the time from submission to getting a decision on the application.

Product Manager - IAM & Registration Flow

Growth Product Manager

Juni is the financial companion that empowers digital entrepreneurs to make better decisions, enables you to scale up your operation and unleash the full potential of digital commerce in your favour. 

With our world-class team, investors and advisors, we invite you to join Juni. A journey with a financial companion that understands you. 
Do you want to work together? Visit https://www.juni.co/careers

Product Manager

Anyfin

Anyfin is a Stockholm-based digital-first consumer finance platform that, through technology, empowers consumers to improve their financial well-being. 

I am responsible for Deep Data Integration (DDI) service in all markets for our Refinance product, allowing users to submit their application by logging in to their bank account compared to uploading an invoice. 

Key activities include:
• Developing and driving vision plus OKR-based roadmap for DDI and on-boarding key stakeholders.
• Discovering and validating user needs, problems, and challenges validating through research, analytics, and experiments.
• Data analytics using BigQuery, Postgres, and Amplitude to unlock cohorts, hidden patterns, and demographics to align product development. 
• Prioritising integration and maintenance towards lenders based on their business value to the company. 
• Planning and leading infrastructural project teams to ensure DDI service health and data accuracy.

Other skills and concepts I used in my day-to-day tasks:
• Product Road Mapping
• Product Strategy
• Product Launch
• Data Analysis
• Agile Methodologies
• Business Analysis
• Cross-functional Team Leadership

Spartacus Capital

Spartacus Capital is a next-level angel investor who brings 5-100 MSEK capital for business ideas and companies that don't have a clear path forward in today's investor landscape. 

As one of the early employees, I was one of the key people in setting up the investment company, working on naming, designing, and branding to setting up our deal flow.
Main responsibilities included:
• Market research of Swedish companies with niche business models.
• Financial modeling (Leveraged Buyout, Discounted Cash Flow) of potential acquisitions. 
• Preparing investment documents for the investment committee, funding partners, and C-level business owners.
• Select received business proposals and meet the entrepreneurs for making investment decisions.

Investment Manager

Dr. Saeid

Investment Manager at Spartacus Capital

Founder at Finna

Business Developer

Handelsbanken Capital Markets

Researching and building Deep Learning models for Operational Risk Prediction in trading transactions.

Master thesis: "Step Embeddings and AutoML for predicting Operational Risk in financial activities"

Abstract: "Most of the machine learning algorithms are based on continuous and numerical variables and many techniques and tricks to use them, such as feature normalization, are for this type of data. These algorithms can not directly be applied to categorical data, and the data should be transformed into a suitable format before feeding into the algorithms. Although the field of feature engineering for categorical data is plentiful and there are numerous methods to deal with this kind of data, when it comes to high dimensional categorical features that contain 10’s of thousands of unique values, there are not many methods available and most of the time domain specific. In this work, two novel embedding methods for high dimensional categorical data in the domain of Operational Risk in Finance are motivated, proposed and benchmarked using automatic machine learning. Main contributions of this work, Naive, and Step Embedding can efficiently encode the life cycle of trades in an investment bank at the same time reducing the data dimensionality and keeping only information necessary to predict undesired events. The best performing method, Step Embedding, achieved the area under the curve score of 0.90 with a signal confidence of 82%."

Master Thesis Project

EIT Digital

EIT Digital is one of the prominent open innovation organization in Europe. The EIT Digital Master School is an exclusive joint initiative by 20 leading technical universities, renowned researchers and leading businesses to provide cutting-edge ICT excellence in combination with innovation and entrepreneurship training, leading to a double degree and an EIT-labeled Certificate

MSc student in Data Science

Product | AI Engineer | Entrepreneur

Bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI technology and real-world business solutions. With a background in Data Science and Machine Learning, I've evolved into a Product Manager and Engineer who builds AI-driven products that solve pressing problems for businesses and consumers.

Current Focus:
As the co-founder of Finna, I'm building the comprehensive operating system for Investor Relations departments. We're transforming how public companies engage with investors through AI-powered automation - from cutting annual report creation time from months to days to enabling 24/7 investor engagement and streamlining CSRD compliance.

Expertise:
- AI & Machine Learning: From traditional ML (classification, outlier detection) to cutting-edge LLMs, RAG, and AI agents
- Product Development: Bridging C-level business needs with deep technical solutions
- Startup Ecosystem: Co-founder of Stockholm Founders Coral 🪸, nurturing high-performing, mindful entrepreneurs
- Tech Education: Founder of HackerPM 📕, teaching product managers crucial technical concepts

Vision:
Leveraging AI as a transformational technology to create positive impact, particularly in:
- Financial health and inclusion
- Equal access to financial data
- Psychological well-being and habit formation

Recent Achievements:
- Admitted to SkyDeck Berkeley - Batch 17 - with Vectorboard.ai
- Selected to participate in Y Combinator Startup School Europe 2024
- Winner of Scrive AI hackathon

For a full list of projects, check out my portfolio at https://hamedmp.com/portfolio/

Always eager to connect with:
- IR professionals looking to modernize their operations
- Public company executives interested in IR innovation
- Tech leaders exploring AI applications in finance
- Fellow entrepreneurs building impactful solutions

Let's connect and explore how we can use AI to build a better future!

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