Linus Dahg: Betting on the Founder

Описание: Linus Dahg is Managing Partner at Inventure (https://www.inventure.vc/), one of the most prominent early-stage venture capital firms in the Nordics.

Linus stepped into the role of Managing Partner about three years ago, leading the firm’s strategy during a period of significant market evolution. Inventure has been an early partner to some of the region’s most successful companies, including Wolt and Swappie, and continues to back ambitious founders across the Nordic and Baltic regions.

In this episode, Linus sits down with Esben to discuss how Inventure has reshaped its investment philosophy to stay competitive, moving from a collaborative generalist model to a more aggressive, high-conviction approach.

In this episode, Linus reflects on:

Why Inventure is doubling down on "founder-centricity" and what that actually looks like in practice.
Why generalist funds need to move away from "collaborative" round-splitting and toward leading larger rounds with higher ownership.
How Linus identifies the "Business Olympians", founders with an obsessive competitive streak who can run through brick walls.
Why he encourages his entire investment team to engage with holistic coaching and therapy to become better listeners and partners to founders.

Episode links:

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