Anna Stenberg

Employed: 2020

Nationality: Swedish

Born: 1979

Board positions: Board Director of Bonnier Ventures, Advisor Norrsken, Chairman of the Board of QuizRR, Board Director of Tipser, Board Director of Ingager, member of the Advisory Board of Reach for Change

Previous Experience: Founder of WES, and various managerial positions at Modern Times Group

Education: M.Sc. BA from Stockholm School of Economics

Shareholding (including closely affiliated persons): 17,450 class B shares, whereof 7,250 through a company

Incentive Shares: 62,640 (2024-29), 44,080 (2023-2028), 29,000 (2022-27), 22,000 (2021-2026), 18,000 (2020-25)

Anna returned to Kinnevik in 2020 as Chief People and Platform Officer after 10 years as entrepreneur and founder of WES which was acquired by SJR (publ) in 2019. During her years as entrepreneur, she invested in 10 early-stage software, edtech and ecommerce businesses. Anna started her career at Kinnevik as management trainee back in 2003 and spent 8 years leading various businesses within our former portfolio company MTG.

As a former entrepreneur and portfolio company leader, Anna has a good understanding of the operational challenges in rapidly scaling businesses. Therefore, she leads our Platform by leveraging Kinnevik’s operational expertise, resources, and best practices to our investees in a broad range of areas supporting them on their growth journeys and helping them overcome growth challenges.

Anna is also part of our investment committee and leads the Founder and Team due diligence work to evaluate if the companies we are considering investing in have the leadership, teams, and organizational capacity needed to execute on the strategy and realize the vision.